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Thanks again, Jill. It worked a treat. So simple once you know. What a shame there isn't a decent book on the programme. Have a nice day.

As always, first assume I am an idiot, but redeemable. Now, what I am trying to do is - Two images, one of which is - Webp format. A rather exotic gold frame around the circumference of the slide, transparent in the main body. 1400x 1050px Webp This image is fixed and does not move. Second image is behind the first image (the frame) It ishows through the top image and is a simple jpeg of text and images. 1400 x 4020px jpeg. When the show is running, this second image should pan/scroll slowly up the screen, appearing from behind the frame at the bottom and disapearing behind the frame at the top. Now I have both images loaded in Animations. The text item was loaded first, then the frame item. I have also tried it the other way round, loading the frame image first. Now I want to select the text layer and animate it so that it will be off the screen at the bottom and slowly scroll up and off the screen at the top. No matter what I do, no matter which image I select, the moment I try to pan the text image to where I want it, the programme immediately grabs both the frame (top image) as well as the text image and pans them both. I cannot pan just one of the images. No doubt I am doing something stupid -but what? Help please.

Can PTE AV Studio export to youtube? I can't find an export format compatible with downloading a slide show to Youtube. Can anyone offer advice, please.

God, I just spent the last four hours trying, and failing, to do something really clever. Then, with your help, another five minutes and job done. Thank you Jill, much appreciated.

I seem to remember, years ago when I first started using PTE, that I created an ending sequence to a short slide show. The sequence was of a slide showing an object with a significant small detail near one side of it. I then created a black slide over the top of that slide. The black slide contained a transparent hole, more or less centrally, and this slide was zoomed out so far that only the transparent hole showed at the start of the sequence, i.e. the lower slide was fully revealed. Slowly the top, black image zoomed in to black out the lower image, apart from that showing through the transparent hole. The top slide continued to zoom in and pan across the lower image until the transparent bit was centered on the detail part of the lower image and the rest of the lower slide was completely blacked out. Then slowly the zoom continued until the bottom image was completely blacked out. I have no idea how I did it, it must have been a good ten years ago and I have only just come back to PTE AV Studio, on Mac. Can anyone help with how to do this these days, please.

Thanks Jill. Yes, I normally manage without notes but now I've acheived the age of struggling with shirt buttons, so I need prompts and notes. I might, if it becomes neccessary, make a Poweerpoint version of any talks and print it out from there. I'll see how it goes. Steve.

Thank you very much for that, Jill. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet but I certainly shall. I do occassional talks to WI Probus etc and this is a major upgrade from Powerpoint, though I shall struggle without presenter notes. Any ideas on a workround for that? Steve.

OK, so I have PTE AV Studio 10.5.9, running on a Mac - Ventura 13.0.1. It thinks it is considerably smarter than me and it does consistently win all battles of will. I am disinclined from letting the situation remain unchanged. All I want to do is insert a picture, either to add the extra picture or to replace one that is already in the series (timeline?), but, whenever I do, the new image may hide behind one that is already there, and/or the timing will change for one or more of the existing pictures. Currently I neither drink nor swear and I would like to keep things that way. Help, please. How do I just drag and drop a picture into place without the timing being affected for adjacent slides? And where do I find a written reference manual? And is the new & latest version of AV Studio a worthwhile purchase?